Book Review: "Cured"

It’s one of the most incredible stories in medical science: a cure for HIV. It happened first in 1998 with Christian Hahn (a pseudonym), and then again in 2008 with Timothy Ray Brown. Both cures took place in Berlin, but involved very different scientific approaches and very different scientists.

In her new book, Cured, scientist and science writer Nathalia Holt tells the personal stories of the so-called Berlin patients, their families, and their doctors. She also delves into the complex — and still largely befuddling — science of the HIV virus, and shows how this research has influenced the cancer field.

I learned a lot from Natalie’s book and was eager to pick her brain about how it came together.Read more at...Only Human, April 2014.